Been Snowing lots the last couple of days and must be still around -30 today as i think i froze my nose whilst on my bike.
Still having lots of fun, Cath has been out on a skidoo and has even started snowboarding we are also off to PowderKing on Wednesday taking some students off for some wintersports. I had a great time in Yellowknife ice fishing on the great Slave lake was a big highlight plus I got to meet some students from really far off places in the Yukon and Nunavat there was one student who lives on an island in the Hudson Bay and had never left it before, watching her walk around a WalMart was pretty interesting. Another student gave me a Bear Claw necklace that a family friend had killed long ago something I will treasure for a long time. Strange to think that in only 3 months we will be heading back to the UK. We have had a great time here and made loads of good friends (poker tonight) but we are starting to make plans for our return, still feels a little while away but with have lots on and I think when the snow finally goes (April time) we will know that we don't have long left.
Saturday 12 March 2011
Saturday 19 February 2011
Winter Sports
The winter has opened up some great opportunities for Jamie and I to try out some winter sports. I hve been helping out with the snowshoe biathlon club and the xcountry skiing club. Today I had a great time skiing out to the cabin pictured above with a group of 10 kids and a number of adults, quite a few dogs came too. we all had a wonderful time and enjoyed some lovely home baked snacks and hot drinks when we arrived at the cabin. Today I even managed to ski down all the hills on the way to and from the cabin without falling and actually felt in control. Am starting to wonder how I can continue to do this sport when I return to the UK, maybe the GB xcountry ski team is calling!
Winter Projects
My job has been very varied over the last couple of months, I have been working on some science projects with the grade 8 class where we have done all sorts like baking bread, chromatography, microscope work. I have also taken on a new chemistry 11 class which has been good for keeping me up to speed in chemistry calculations, I have also learnt a lot from the different approaches used in the Canadian textbooks.
Monday 7 February 2011
Survivng the Winter
Well it has been a very long time since we have updated this blog and for those who care I do apologise for that.
So where to begin, well first up Cath and I had a great time over Christmas and really enjoyed spending some quality time with my Cousin and her family, since we have got back there has been so much that we have been getting up to.
Catherine has been busy making a pair of Moosehide Mocasians with Beaver fur trim, I think she has really enjoyed making them and has been working with one of the Elders who has been helping her with the more difficuly parts (probably most of it). Catherine has been off to Fort Simpson for a fiddling camp (that's the musical instrument obviously) and has relly got into Cross country skiing nd bit of Biathlon as well. As for me I have been keeping as busy as I can with a dodgy back, that's right all the problems with ny groin and it turns out I had never pulled or torn it, in fact I have a slipped disc in my back which is a bit of a bitch really, but now I know I can look after it a lot better, and hipefully get a scan and get it sorted when I get home. I have also been out Ice fishing, it was awesome took the Skidoo out to a lake around 20km away and then sat there looking at a hole for 4 hours in the freezing cold, no fish surprisingly; still the view was amazing, and ripping a snow mobile over a frozen lake at near 100kph was pretty exciting. Getting there was no issue, although on the way back I did have a slight altercation with a tree who in my view swirved dangerous before I hit him.
I have kind of left the kitchen behind and am now mostly working in the new community library, it's going to be great once we have updated it a little (getting rid of the Hanson Biographies and atlas that still have west and east German), I am really enjoying helping sort it out, buying new books, laptops and magazine suncriptions, also electronacally filing all the books and recatagorising the shelfs. It seems like a lot of hard work, but hopefully it will be something that has a lasting impact in the community.
I also have lots of travelling in the coming months off to Yellowknife for a week on Tuesday to take a couple of students to a heritage fare they are taking part in, then we are off Snowboarding at Powderking (near Fort st John) during spring break. Then we might be off to Hay River, Fort Simpson and Grand Praire for some up coming Soccer compitions (not sure how the girls team I am coaching will do but you never know).
As for the winter, well I think we have lots of snow, but everyone is gutted that we have had so little, we have also got through the worst of the weather we have had a few days when the temperature has been below -45 (more like -55 with windchill). The temperature is kind of crazy it was +5 one day and a couple of days later we are back to the -20's.
OK so quite a long update, but now we are house sitting and hve loads of internet time we will try to keep it more updated and put on ll our pictures we have saved up.
Hoping that Dave has not messed up Britain too much for when we get back
So where to begin, well first up Cath and I had a great time over Christmas and really enjoyed spending some quality time with my Cousin and her family, since we have got back there has been so much that we have been getting up to.
Catherine has been busy making a pair of Moosehide Mocasians with Beaver fur trim, I think she has really enjoyed making them and has been working with one of the Elders who has been helping her with the more difficuly parts (probably most of it). Catherine has been off to Fort Simpson for a fiddling camp (that's the musical instrument obviously) and has relly got into Cross country skiing nd bit of Biathlon as well. As for me I have been keeping as busy as I can with a dodgy back, that's right all the problems with ny groin and it turns out I had never pulled or torn it, in fact I have a slipped disc in my back which is a bit of a bitch really, but now I know I can look after it a lot better, and hipefully get a scan and get it sorted when I get home. I have also been out Ice fishing, it was awesome took the Skidoo out to a lake around 20km away and then sat there looking at a hole for 4 hours in the freezing cold, no fish surprisingly; still the view was amazing, and ripping a snow mobile over a frozen lake at near 100kph was pretty exciting. Getting there was no issue, although on the way back I did have a slight altercation with a tree who in my view swirved dangerous before I hit him.
I have kind of left the kitchen behind and am now mostly working in the new community library, it's going to be great once we have updated it a little (getting rid of the Hanson Biographies and atlas that still have west and east German), I am really enjoying helping sort it out, buying new books, laptops and magazine suncriptions, also electronacally filing all the books and recatagorising the shelfs. It seems like a lot of hard work, but hopefully it will be something that has a lasting impact in the community.
I also have lots of travelling in the coming months off to Yellowknife for a week on Tuesday to take a couple of students to a heritage fare they are taking part in, then we are off Snowboarding at Powderking (near Fort st John) during spring break. Then we might be off to Hay River, Fort Simpson and Grand Praire for some up coming Soccer compitions (not sure how the girls team I am coaching will do but you never know).
As for the winter, well I think we have lots of snow, but everyone is gutted that we have had so little, we have also got through the worst of the weather we have had a few days when the temperature has been below -45 (more like -55 with windchill). The temperature is kind of crazy it was +5 one day and a couple of days later we are back to the -20's.
OK so quite a long update, but now we are house sitting and hve loads of internet time we will try to keep it more updated and put on ll our pictures we have saved up.
Hoping that Dave has not messed up Britain too much for when we get back
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